The JUNKER CONGRESS

[worldstrider]

I agree with Oniros reply. Exactly right.

Wow.

I loved shane and tyro's posts...you guys do get it.

They are really into their play and it shows. It's guys like this that made me want to do the faction--not some dark motive to take over Sirius and feed a swelling ego.

I picked "Tinkerbell" as a name because it was not aggressive and I came here planning on running a trader. I didn't realize what it meant by "role play" when I arrived--I had never seen a genuine rp Freelancer server before. I just thought "role play" meant not a pvp fighter jock server. I picked Junkers as my faction because they weren't a big, attention-getting, "powerful house" and could move around and smuggle and it spiced up the trade life some. I also picked it because I didn't see a lot of Junkers and I didn't want to just "be one of the herd".

I noticed that most Junkers here were isolationists. They really interacted very little with one another. One or two had a friend or partner but most just quietly traded. Wasn't at all like the other factions that collaborated and worked together.

One night I got to talking with Oniros after fighting one of his lawful characters and he mentioned how he thought a good Junker faction had a lot of potential and I said I agreed but didn't see how it could happen because Junker players were so disjointed and uncommunicative and combat weak. He mentioned that he was getting tagged a "Junker Guard" and we got to thinking how that could be the device to create a faction around--so that we didn't take over the Junkers as a whole--just created a new venue for some.

We made a couple of posts and suddenly new Junkers started popping up and players started PMing me in-game. Seems there were a lot of Junkers who wanted a faction. When I actually posted that we were thinking of starting a faction, I learned why Junkers all were laying so low.

I started getting in-game rants from players, forum comments, rudeness and anger. Not mostly from Junkers (though the "vanilla only!" crowd had their moments) but from players with powerful characters in the big leagues--Outcasts, SA, Corsairs, BHs, Zoners, etc.

It was the guys flying around in the capital ships that were shouting, "Careful, Junkers will unbalance the game!" I was stunned. At one point Oniros considered just forgetting the faction idea and just role playing his own character quietly as before--because of all the hostility. So we kind of rallied each other.

What motivated me was the people who wanted a faction because they loved playing Junkers but were intimidated by the "big boys" into feeling second string (go back and read shane's and tyro's replies now) and the other thing was the attempts to "quiet me down" and stop me. That's why i picked the motto under my signature below.

Having the 500 million application fee instituted the day before I posted my initial faction request was another surprise.

But 'ya know what? We raised the money, worked hard to address balance issues and be transparent and honest about our goals and most importantly we have a positive reason to do this--to let other players who are missing out have some more fun too.

Don't miss the forest looking for the trees, this is a good idea.

To all the people who have let me know privately (and publicly) how much they like the idea, thanks!

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